May Lake Day Hike

Route map

This overview is built from a reviewed, versioned source snapshot. It is planning evidence, not navigation-grade mapping.

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Routes and geography

Ordered route geometry

Recorded for: May Lake Day Hike

Distance status

published at route level only

Route shape

out and back objective corridor

Segment ids

route-segment-yosemite-west-tioga-nps-19452

Start node id

trailhead-may-lake

Evidence and sources (1)

No claim effective interval recorded.

Spatial scope IDs: scope-tioga-road-corridor

Evidence stance: supports · Evidence details
The NPS day-hike page identifies the May Lake and Tioga Road-to-Lukens Lake route starts, objectives, round-trip distances, and named trail corridors used for this graph.
Publisher
National Park Service
Observer / attribution
Not recorded
Observed at
Unknown
Retrieved at
2026-09-26T00:00:00+00:00
Retrieval time does not establish when an event occurred.
Observation details · Source details · Original source: National Park Service

Published route profile

Recorded for: May Lake Day Hike

Elevation gain ft

485

Objective entity ids

waterbody-may-lake

Operational status requires current check

Yes

Published start entity id

trailhead-may-lake

Published time

1 to 2 hours

Round trip miles

2.4

Trailhead road miles from tioga

1.75

Evidence and sources (1)

No claim effective interval recorded.

Spatial scope IDs: scope-tioga-road-corridor

Evidence stance: supports · Evidence details
NPS publishes Crane Flat, grove, White Wolf, and western Tioga Road route starts, mileage, time, elevation, road season, limited services, water planning, and parking constraints.
Publisher
National Park Service
Observer / attribution
Not recorded
Observed at
Unknown
Retrieved at
2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00
Retrieval time does not establish when an event occurred.
Observation details · Source details · Original source: National Park Service

Before you go

These open questions need confirmation; Wayproof does not fill them with guesses.

Which reviewed NPS trail features and explicit connectors complete the remaining western Yosemite and Tioga Road routes?

May Lake and the Tioga Road approach to Lukens Lake now have reviewed named-feature graphs. Merced Grove intersects a longer named old-road feature, Tuolumne Grove requires an unresolved road-to-loop join, and the White Wolf, Harden Lake, North Dome, Ten Lakes, and Grand Canyon routes remain branched or incomplete; no nearby geometry is snapped into a route.

Open question. Linked evidence does not resolve this gap.

No specific claim evidence is linked to this question.

Sources, evidence, and history

Planning facts above are readable first. Open these records when you need to audit a source or see when knowledge changed.

Published ChangeSet history

wp-20260925-yosemite-remaining-corridors — ADD route-may-lake-day-hike: Add reviewed western Yosemite and Tioga Road planning depth.
wp-20260926-yosemite-west-tioga-route-graph — ADD claim-may-lake-day-hike-ordered-geometry-20260926: Add reviewed west-Tioga route geometry from official NPS route descriptions and trail data.
wp-20260925-yosemite-remaining-corridors — ADD claim-may-lake-day-hike-published-profile: Add reviewed western Yosemite and Tioga Road planning depth.